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Title: Picturesque Ireland : a literary and artistic delineation of the natural scenery, remarkable places, historical antiquities, public buildings, ancient abbeys, towers, castles, and other romantic and attractive features of Ireland
Year: 1885 (1880s)
Authors: Savage, John, 1828-1888, ed
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Publisher: New York, T. Kelly
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hem, to coast all alonge the shore fortwenty or thirty miles, and willed wheresoever they found any houses, theyshould bring away the timber and other materials to build withall, and OCanehaving awoode lying on the opposite side, with plentie of growne birch, I dailiesent some workmen with a guard to cut it down, and not a sticke of it but waswell fought for. A quarry of stone and slatt we found hard bye ; cockle shells tomake lyme we discovered infinite plentie in a little iland at the mouth of theharbour. With these helps, and the stones and rubbige of the old buildings weefound, wee sett ourselves wholie to fortefying, and framing, and setting up ofhouses, such as we might be able to live in, etc. In 1608, Sir Cahir ODoherty,the young chief of Innishowen, burned this newly built town, and put the gov-ernor and garrison to the sword. In the next year, however, the lords of theprivy council made arrangements with the corporation of London for its rebuild-ing, which progressed slowly.
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L ^^6iA 576 PICTURESQUE IRELAND. After Hugh ONeill and ODonnell, princes of Tyrone and Tyrconnell, hadfallen into the snares laid for them by Mountjoy and his spies, and fled to thecontinent, the Plantation of Ulster was vigorously set on foot by James I. Thesix counties marked out as the prey of the undertakers exceeded in lengthand breadth the large English counties of Yorkshire and Lancashire. No partof Ireland was more rich in natural fertility and cultivation, and though the bar-barian hand of English rapine had been busy with its teeming fields, it yet boreto the hungry vultures that awaited its partition, the abundant promise ofuntold wealth. A company was formed by the guilds of London, for the pur-pose of colonization, and in 1613 it was incorporated by royal charter as TheSociety of the Governor and Assistants of London, of the New Plantation inUlster, within the Realm of Ireland. At this period the prefix London wasmade to the old name of Derry. The surface of the county va

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